Category: Press Releases

Rape Activists Applaud Ruling Allowing Prisoners access to Internet Information

  • September 16, 2002

September 16, 2002 LOS ANGELES – The nonprofit human rights group Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) today praised a federal judge’s ruling that will allow Pelican Bay prisoners to receive mail containing material printed from the Internet. A judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Sept. 11 that prisoners have

House Speaker Hastert Endorses Prison Rape Reduction Act

  • September 26, 2002

Sept. 26, 2002 WASHINGTON D.C. – House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) today endorsed the Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2002, legislation he called “a truly compassionate initiative that will make real progress in changing the realities of incarceration.” Hastert’s endorsement came in a letter to Charles Colson, the chairman of Prison Fellowship Ministries. The group

Stop Prisoner Rape Accuses FBI of Ignoring Male Rape Victims in New Crime Report

  • October 30, 2002

October 30, 2002 LOS ANGELES – The FBI’s practice of including only female rape victims in its annual Uniform Crime Report on violent crime is outdated and ignores the vast numbers of men who are raped and sexually brutalized in prison, the director of the nonprofit human rights group Stop Prisoner Rape said today. Lara

Judge Rules in Favor of SPR in Suit Against Arizona Department of Corrections

  • December 16, 2002

December 16, 2002 LOS ANGELES – Prisoners who want to send material to be published on the website of Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) or other organizations may not be stopped by the Arizona Department of Corrections, a federal judge ruled today. A U.S. district court issued a preliminary injunction halting the enforcement of a law